Fractional Burgers wave equation on a finite domain

Dynamic response of the one-dimensional viscoelastic rod of finite length, that has one end fixed and the other subject to prescribed either displacement or stress, is analyzed by the analytical means of Laplace transform, yielding the displacement and stress of an arbitrary rod’s point as a convolution of the boundary forcing and solution kernel. Thermodynamically consistent Burgers models are adopted as the constitutive equations describing mechanical properties of the rod. Short-time asymptotics implies the finite wave propagation speed in the case of the second class models, contrary to the case of the first class models. Moreover, Burgers model of the first class yield quite classical shapes of displacement and stress time profiles resulting from the boundary forcing assumed as the Heaviside function, while model of the second class yield responses that resemble to the sequence of excitation and relaxation processes.